Books: Books of the Week

MOTHER & FOUR—Isabel Wilder— Coward-McCann ($2). Long-winded family struggles in a university town, by Thornton Wilder's sister.

THE MODERN THEME—Jose Ortega y Gasset—Norton ($2). Expanded lecture by one of Spain's foremost thinkers, author of The Revolt of the Masses.

BENGAL MUTINY—George Danger-field—Har-court, Brace ($2). Brief, graphic resume of the Indian Mutiny, guaranteed to make British flesh creep.

SOME CALL IT LOVE—Rian James —King ($2). The gentle passion among Manhattan racketeers.

RECENT PROSE—John Masefield— Macmillan ($2.50). Papers on Synge, Yeats, Chaucer, Shakespeare et al. by England's U. S.-lecturing Poet Laureate.

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